Mugabe loyalists demand body of colonialist Cecil Rhodes be exhumed and sent back to Britain

[ellisonz]

SOURCE: Daily Mail (UK) (2-22-12)

ACTIVISTS loyal to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe have visited the grave of colonialist Cecil Rhodes to demand permission to exhume his remains and return them to Britain.

A group of Zanu-PF supporters and veterans from the country's liberation war travelled to the remote site last week to express their anger at the continued presence of the Oxford-educated mining magnate's body in Zimbabwe.

The fresh call to exhume Rhodes' remains comes nearly 110 years after the colonial pioneer was laid to rest in 1902 in the Matopos hills outside the country's second city of Bulawayo.

At the time, the land lay inside Rhodesia, a British territory established in his own name by the millionaire businessman and politician.

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[RZM]

1. Hmm. I had no idea he was buried there n/t

[ellisonz]

2. I'm going to laugh so hard...

...if they actually do dig him up and send him back.

[RZM]

3. Yeah that's pretty unusual

Usually it's the other way around, with people in the home country requesting that the body be repatriated. It's pretty odd. I'd say 'don't they have better things to do' except everything Mugabe and co. touch seems to turn to shit so maybe not.

[ellisonz]

4. ZANU-PF is pretty frickin' crazy.

Wouldn't want to end up on the wrong side of those guys.